Word: understands
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...pick your roles? One of the frustrations that I've had is to read about some animals' extraordinary behavior, but maybe not being able to understand what their Latin name corresponds to out in my garden. So I kept it simple-flies, earthworms, a barnacle-things that people know...
...contracts are incredibly complicated, a thousand pages and more, and all in English," says Franz-Reinhard Habbel, spokesman for the Federation of German Cities and Municipalities. "Many cities were just out of their depth and unable to understand them...
...easy to put your finger on what's appealing about zombies. Vampires you can understand. They're good-looking and sophisticated and well dressed. They're immortal. Some of them have castles. You can imagine wanting to be a vampire or at least wanting to sleep with one. Nobody wants to sleep with zombies. They're hideous and mindless. They don't have superpowers. Their only assets are their infectiousness, single-minded perseverance and virtual unkillability. (See pictures of vampires' 90 years on screen...
...said to Holbrooke and Mullen," says Sethi. "It fuels anti-Americanism. I told Holbrooke that leaking allegations against the ISI is counterproductive. I told Mullen that the closer he appears to Kayani, the more he will feel the need to demonstrate his independence to his constituency ... I don't understand why they can't be more discreet...
...always, 'How do we make sure these good, sensible policies and ideas are really implemented throughout the whole country?'" It is not enough to have good policies in Beijing; the work has to happen in the provinces and the communities where 60% of the nation actually lives. "Unless you understand how you can translate the policies into the realities of where the people are living, you will not succeed," he says. "There's an opportunity here to make sure 50 million people don't become infected...